Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIMITS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON


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First Line: Who knows this or that
Last Line: Is cruelty to thy cruelty.
Subject(s): Rats


Who knows this or that
Hark in the wall to the rat
Since the world was, he has gnawed;
Of his wisdom of his fraud
What dost thou know
In the wretched little beast
Is life & heart
Child & parent
Not without relation
To fruitful field & sun & moon
What art thou? his wicked eye
Is cruelty to thy cruelty.





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